Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism
Subtitle: Democratic Design and the Separation of Powers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-12-17
Place of publication: Oxford, England, UK
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780192897145
Table of contents: title: Front Matter; title: Copyright Page
pagenum: iv; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: v; title: List of Figures
pagenum: x; title: List of Tables
pagenum: xi; title: List of Abbreviations (Countries and Subnational Units)
pagenum: xii; label: 1
title: The road not taken
pagenum: 1; title: Executive personalism and the locus of powers separation
pagenum: 1; title: Why semi-parliamentarism is superior to presidentialism
pagenum: 4; title: Rethinking the visions of democracy
pagenum: 6; title: Stable, effective, and majoritarian bicameralism
pagenum: 8; title: Why semi-parliamentarism is not less democratic
pagenum: 10; title: Chapter overview
pagenum: 11; label: 2
title: Separation of powers ≠ presidentialism
pagenum: 14; title: Executive personalism
pagenum: 15; title: Presidential and parliamentary government
pagenum: 17; title: Delicate hybrids
pagenum: 19; title: Robust hybrids
pagenum: 26; title: A typological conclusion
pagenum: 32; label: 3
title: Why we need the concept of semi-parliamentary government
pagenum: 35; title: Semi-parliamentarism as a descriptive category
pagenum: 36; title: The historical evolution of semi-parliamentarism
pagenum: 38; title: The blind spots of existing typologies
pagenum: 39; title: Concerns about the concept
pagenum: 42; title: Comparing the cases
pagenum: 43; title: Visions of majority formation and normative balancing
pagenum: 46; title: Semi-parliamentarism within a single chamber
pagenum: 49; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 50; label: 4
title: Are some forms of government more democratic than others?
pagenum: 51; title: Three ways to value formal democratic procedures
pagenum: 52; title: How one institutional scheme can be inherently more democratic than another
pagenum: 55; title: Taking vertical inequality seriously
pagenum: 57; title: Is presidentialism inherently more democratic?
pagenum: 58; title: Is semi-parliamentarism less democratic?
pagenum: 63; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 65; label: 5
title: Visions of democracy and the limits of parliamentarism
pagenum: 66; title: Visions of democracy and the separation of powers
pagenum: 67; title: Simple versus complex majoritarianism
pagenum: 69; title: The two visions under pure parliamentarism
pagenum: 71; title: The limits and perils of simple majoritarianism
pagenum: 72; title: The limits and perils of complex majoritarianism
pagenum: 76; title: Normative balancing strategies under parliamentarism
pagenum: 79; title: The empirics of normative balancing
pagenum: 81; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 86; label: 6
title: How semi-parliamentarism can balance visions of democracy
pagenum: 87; title: Normative balancing in theory
pagenum: 88; title: Institutional comparison of the cases
pagenum: 91; title: Normative balancing in practice
pagenum: 93; title: A closer look at legislative flexibility
pagenum: 95; title: Is normative balancing desirable?
pagenum: 99; title: What about democratic “performance”?
pagenum: 101; title: Synergistic benefits of semi-parliamentarism
pagenum: 103; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 106; label: 7
title: Design matters: second chambers, cabinet formation, and constitutional reform
pagenum: 108; title: Two conjectures about strong bicameralism
pagenum: 109; title: The restrictiveness of second chambers
pagenum: 111; title: How do second chambers affect cabinet formation?
pagenum: 117; title: Restrictiveness and constitutional reform
pagenum: 121; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 129; label: 8
title: Designing semi-parliamentary democracy
pagenum: 130; title: Constituting the two chambers
pagenum: 130; title: Semi-parliamentarism within a single chamber
pagenum: 133; title: Designing inter-branch relations
pagenum: 138; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 147; label: 9
title: Against presidentialism
pagenum: 148; title: Presidentialism versus semi-parliamentarism
pagenum: 149; title: Antipartyism
pagenum: 150; title: Psychology
pagenum: 150; title: Constituency size
pagenum: 152; title: The legitimacy of direct election
pagenum: 153; title: The legitimacy of direct recall
pagenum: 154; title: Cabinet stability and legislative flexibility
pagenum: 157; title: Identifiability and mandate representation
pagenum: 158; title: Electoral accountability
pagenum: 160; title: Democratic breakdown and backsliding
pagenum: 163; title: Simplicity
pagenum: 166; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 167; title: End Matter; title: Appendix
pagenum: 168; title: Appendix to Chapters 5 and 6
pagenum: 168; title: Appendix to Chapter 7
pagenum: 172; title: References
pagenum: 176; title: Index
pagenum: 197